Not exactly the voice inside your head

Bedard or bust for the Mariners

Baseballs spring training has begun, and the Seattle Mariners are getting ready for the upcoming season. I’m quite excited about this one. We were good last year and over the off-season we’ve traded for one of the best young pitchers in the game, Erik Bedard, and when an above average team adds a great player then exciting things can happen.

For the teams sake it had better be a good season, because in order to acquire this great young pitcher we traded away our best young prospects. That means if the team doesn’t do something this year we don’t have much to look forward to over the next few years. No great young players coming up from the minor leagues and no big trades to bring in another star.

So if Bedard is either injured or not as good as advertised then its going to be a doubly depressing season. Depressing because the team will be doing badly, and depressing because we know things wont improve in a hurry.